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Inside the making of India’s default internet interface
Graphical User Interface-based systems come designed with dropdown menus, buttons, toggles and input fields. They require a level of literacy and linguistic ease that many users in India simply don’t ...
Remembering Bill Atkinson, the Mac visionary that revolutionized personal computing
You may not know his name, but Steve Jobs was so desparate to hire Bill Atkinson that he went to extraordinary lengths to ...
Bill Atkinson won the respect of Steve Jobs by creating a high-level programming language in just 6 days
Bill Atkinson died on June 5 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 74. Atkinson was one of the earliest Apple employees, ...
The Autopian on MSN2d
RIP Bill Atkinson, Computer Pioneer, And Yes There's Sort Of A Car Angle Here
I realize this isn’t a strictly car-related thing, but it is something that fits in with one of my other interests, old, ...
Bill Atkinson, pioneering early Apple engineer, dies at 74
The engineer behind much of the Mac's early graphical user interfaces, QuickDraw, MacPaint, Hypercard and much more, William ...
Bill Atkinson, the Creative Force Behind Apple’s Graphical Interface and HyperCard, Dies at 73
Bill Atkinson, a seminal figure in Apple’s early history and one of the masterminds behind the user-friendly design of the ...
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present ...